dead-beat
Example Sentences
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Point three is-some odd conflation between leaving people alone in their private lives and dead-beat dads.
From Time ● Jan. 29, 2013
But on a rainy evening of "dead-beat, hungover idleness", he was seized with the idea of walking across Europe to the gates of Asia.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2012
Instead of hating her for the transgression, what about feeling sorry for her that she can’t do any better than a dead-beat dad with anger issues?!
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2012
British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation.
From Time Magazine Archive
“What do we want that blamed old dead-beat round here for, when he can’t speak to anyone but the Crown land-agent and the mill manager?”
From The Greater Power by Dunton, W. Herbert
